Don has also created some wonderful green dwarf iris. I know he is still introducing new blues.

I posted an article about his sister on the Mindless Chatter thread. Don sends her 200 iris a year!!! She certainly must have a lot more space than most of us!!

2 more boxes today!!

International Iris:
Blue Parrot
Gongolo
Blaze Valley
All Beautiful
Full Moon Eclipse
GIFTS:
Miss Pretty (anyone know what this looks like?)
Sunshine Superman
Liege Lord
Landgraefin Elisabeth
Trick of the Light

Bayview Gardens:
Tunnel Vision
Avenue of Dreams
Valley of Dreams
Mayan Dusk
GIFTS:
Gentle Soul (supposed to be Magic Mirror but I guess they ran out)
Hello Beautiful
Redneck Girl
Moonlight Drive (what does this look like?)

No wiki pic of Miss Pretty, white standards, white falls splashed red, yellow tipped beard. Sounds like my kind of iris.

Leslie! That does sound pretty

3 boxes today , two 'iris buddy" boxes...from Barbara, and Judy, and one "commercial" box from the "Iris Whisperer" ! Superstition shipped on Monday, so....*maybe* even yet this afternoon .

Got a small package of 2 yesterday and a larger one of 8 today, but not the quantity that Liz has gotten already. Only 24 rec'd so far from trades and one order with 67 to go it appears. Have to do some rearranging to make better use of the new bed areas and keep certain ones together.

You made an interesting statement, Dave ....."to keep certain ones together" . At times, I've tried that.......all one hybridizer....all the rebloomers....all the "French ones", whatever....and it seems that something always pops up to make it ...all the "French" ones...but those two, or, all the Sass...except for Minnie Colquitt, so....I just plant by height, now . I do try to keep the "likely zone 5 rebloomers" in the rebloomerbeds, and I *try* to keep the "Indians" all on the reservation.....which is now THREE reservations ! But, , I've pretty well given up on organizing anything else .

I never thought to group by hybridizers, that sounds awesome!!! If I ever move and redo my beds I think I'll try it out.

I put a lot of Keppels in the lily garden. Rebloomers are kept on the other half of the back yard garden so they can get their separate water and steroids.

I got a giant box today from Keith Keppel. All really big and fresh rhizomes.

I ordered:
Arson
Black Lipstick
Pepper Jack
She
Painted Words
Another Suggestion
Flash Mob
Ghirardelli Square
Dark Energy
Mixed Signals
Woven Sun Light

Plus these extras
Bashful Love
Foreign Agent
Sherbet Bomb
Diamond Broker
Valley Of Dreams
Idle Rich
Blind Ambition
Sassy Sister
Milk In My Coffee (Leslie is going to drool over this one.)

I'm a happy camper!

Awww you got sherbert bomb!!!! I'm soooo jealous!

That's an awesome order by the way!

Yes, wow order!

Well, I'm a little behind, I have some catching up to do. But I have received 3 boxes!! 2 boxes are already in the ground.

Let me start off by saying why I am so behind, My husband and I are expecting our first child a baby girl at the end of December! ( now I have someone to share my Iris love with!! ) After being told we couldn't have children this is big news for us! This is why I have been MIA for a bit, I had A horrible case of morning sickness which started right when bloom season did. I am now over that part and starting to feel back to normal. But my gardening this year is going to be very limited in the heat.

Sooo now back to the Iris.

Iris Whisperer:
Chardonnay and ice
French Riveria
Just crazy
Landgrifin Elizabeth
Patchwork puzzle
Russian violet
Wise woman

Bonus:
Fancy as
Exposed lady

Napa Iris

Adventurous
Astrobubbles
Birthday girl
Bubbly mood
Cold fusion
Cranfil's gap
My beloved
Secret rites
Chasing rainbows
Coffee whispers
Curtsy queen
Excuse me darling
Roll the dice
Social graces

Bonus
Splendid spring

Mid America

Abiding love
Beefy
Born this way
Bottle rocket
Cameo minx
Carnival of color
Girl gone wild
Jealous guy
Jeanne clay plank
Mardi Gras ball
Painted love
Strawberry freeze
Tempesto

Bonus
Purple punch
Tainted love
Vanity girl
Call to danger
Inner darkness


That's 42 now with bonus and. 6 more orders to come.

Warmest congratulations, Jen and husband!

Congrats also on your list of wonderful irises.

Congrats Jen, that's the best news of the day!

You will be very busy very soon!
Congratulations to both of you. [Be careful, we weren't to have any either, then had 6 with no multiples!]

Great News Jen! Congrats!

There is nothing sweeter in this world than a baby girl! Congratulations to mommy and daddy!

Amazing news Jen, Congrats!!!! I wish I lived closer so I could help you plant.